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How To Copy a DVD Movie to an iPad or iPhone

Copying your DVD movie collection to an iPhone or iPad is very simple if you know how to do it. Recently my wife and I took a long flight with the kids. Having their favorite DVDs on my iPad and iPhone proved to be a life saver. Here’s how I did it.

Copying your DVD collection to an iDevice (iPad, iPhone or iPod) is very simple if you know how to do it. Recently my wife and I took a long flight with the kids. Having their favorite DVDs on my iPad and iPhone proved to be a lifesaver. Here’s how I copied the DVDs.

Decrypt DVD and Copy it to your Hard Drive

First, we need to decrypt the DVD and copy its contents to our hard drive. To do this use, a free application called DVDFab. Ripping a DVD with DVDFab is simple, and Brian Burgess here at groovyPost wrote a step-by-step in his tutorial on how to convert a DVD to an ISO File. Follow his steps up to where he tells you to test the VOB files with VNC then continue below with Step 2.

Install HandBrake and Transcode the Video/Audio files

Now that DVDFab copied the DVD to our hard drive, its time to convert the files to a format our iPad / iPhone can read. We will do this with another free Application, Handbrake.

Will I be able to stream these movies to my apple TV? I want to use the iPad to stream movies from the iPad to the TV in the RV for the kids while we are on the road during family trips. I have the system setup in the RV and the mirroring works fine, but when I bought Lion King and tried to stream it, it doesn’t work. Apparently I need an Internet connection to confirm license via iTunes.